Lipolysis (Lipodissolve), is a very controversial plastic surgery treatment in recent years. The drug is quick, easy and scarless, and even Britney Spears lost her elephant legs with this treatment in ’07. However, recently it has been discovered that some people have grown tumors after having lipolysis injections. The main ingredient of lipolysis injection is a mixture of lecithin and sodium deoxycholate (called PC/DC), which can effectively dissolve fat at the injection site. Initially a lipotropic agent containing PCDC was approved in Germany for the treatment of lipoembolic infarcted blood vessels. However, when used in plastic surgery, the side effects of the lipolytic injection component are not yet known to be controlled. In addition to the side effects, it is uncertain whether lipolytic injections break down fat cells or simply dissolve and liquefy fat and allow it to travel throughout the body, thus risking an exacerbation of heart disease. All of these uncertainties have castigated the promotion of lipolysis injections. In the UK, lipolytic agents were circulating in the plastic surgery market under the name Flabjab, which later began to be banned. In addition Brazil and Canada are banning the use of lipolysis needles. In the United States, the National Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has urged caution in the use of lipolytic needles, and Kansas is spearheading efforts to ban their use. The near bankruptcy of Fig, one of the larger liposuction providers in the U.S., at the end of 2007 is strong evidence that there are many problems with the use of liposuction, as the company subsequently received multiple complaints about liposuction in one year, which was a major reason for its bankruptcy. Fig’s original name was “The AdvancedLipoDissolveCenter”, and since opening its first facility in September 2005, it has opened 18 branches in two years, with strong advertising on TV, radio and fashion magazines. It has even attracted clients like Britney. Because of the convenience, speed and lack of traces of lipolysis needles, some small spas and plastic surgery clinics began to use them instead of liposuction, but even plastic surgeons themselves bore the brunt of the drug’s side effects. Dr. Yang in the United States intended to offer lipolysis services in his own plastic surgery clinic, so he had someone teach him the technique of using lipolysis needles. Dr. Yang experimented with his right waist, and 30 minutes after the injection, he felt as if he had been stung by dozens of bees, and soon his skin began to bruise, even making him consider a peel. Two of Yang’s colleagues also tried the lipolysis injection, and as a result, one of the male colleagues’ abdomen began to swell as if she were six months pregnant, and the other female colleague’s thighs were so edematous that she always had to wear long leggings to bind her legs.